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Whatever we say about Lefkimmi is inadequate. It is a
different world, a separate one. On the roads, women riding donkeys
return from their fields. In the west, rare cedar woods border Lake
Korission. At the southern tip of the region, the atmospheric forest
of Arkoudillas surrounds the Monastery of the Blessed Virgin Mary,
dating from 1700. To the east a lighthouse stands on the Lefkimmi
headland, by the 15th century salt-pans. More vines grow in these
fields than anywhere else in Corfu.
Lefkimmi (Alefkimo) has a long history. Archaeologists believe
that settlements existed at Arkoudillas, at Boro (near Neohori)
and at Boukari as far back as Paleolithic and Neolithic times.
At that period, the sea between Gardiki and Vitalades reached
the level of today’s main road. Thucydides mentions the naval
battle between Corfu and Corinth, which took place off the Lefkimmi
headland around 435-434 BC. Archaic traditions which have been
maintained to the present time, Byzantine buildings and artifacts
provide proof of continuous human occupation in the area, despite
barbarian raids which frequently laid waste to the area. During
Venetian times, Greeks fleeing from Turkish occupied areas built
whole villages. Today the South of Corfu has a population of 10,000,
around half residing within the borders of the Municipality of
Lefkimmi, which covers the area south of Vitalades.
The Lefkimmiots are bound to their soil and its history. Independent
people, they hold to their traditions and (mainly agricultural)
way of life. Living far from the protection of the town, they
bore the brunt of barbarian raids, but retained their Hellenistic
spirit and culture with great passion. Directness and spontaneity,
wine and song, together with hard work in the fields, are fundamental
to the most original way of life on the island.
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